A couple of questions.
I thought our rotation was this: Sale, Peavy, Floyd, Liriano, Quintana. Is someone hurt? After all, this is crunch time, we are pitching sale 120 innings a start. We're now using a 6th starter in the deep stretch?

Viciedo has had 2 straight games in which he hit well. He's 3 for his last 6. He's 8 for his last 28 with 2 homers and 5 walks.
Wise is 0 for his last 16, and 7 for his last 35 with no homers and zero walks. it's the same story with Wise year after year: he's one of the worst hitters in baseball, and his rare hits come in bunches. The bunch has been over for 2 weeks.
Ventura benches Viciedo after a big game, Ozzie-style.
Seriously, is there some fog in the Sox Dugout and administrative office that makes people believe that Wise is a good hitter?

its a strange game, but its hard to cook up a scenario now where the sox take this division still. Just 1 game back, but factor in how poorly this team is performing in all facets of the game and the remaining schedule for both teams....I just dont see it. Hope they prove me wrong

I really thought Dunn's shot in the first game would be a spark, but they just flat out stunk it up these last 2 games.....

what a shame

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A swing, and a high fly ball, deep right center field. This is way back in the gap. And it's a goner! A White Sox winner! A winner on a Podsednik home run, and the White Sox go up two games to nothing in the 2005 World Series.

It isn't like Detroit went on an eight-game winning streak or something. The Tigers merely went 5-3, good but not great.

The Sox went 1-7 and handed them control of the division.

This is a choke, plain and simple.

Which has happened before around this time of year but these guys seemed more resilient than past teams. We had chances to cave earlier in the year and bounced back; that's what makes what's taking place now so disappointing..